Meditation - Oil On Canvas Signed Marguerite Bordet

This work by Marguerite Bordet (1909-2014) features a monumental face with closed eyes, emerging from a dense material in warm ochre and brown tones. The almost sculptural treatment of the features, combined with the fusion of the face with a landscape, incorporating architectural elements and inhabited by small human figures, goes beyond the simple portrait to reach a symbolic dimension. Through the gradual erasure of contours in the material, the artist suggests a state of withdrawal from reality, akin to meditation; the face becomes an inner space, a world unto itself, where human presence, memory and silence mingle.

Canvas 65 x 51 cm

Frame 74 x 60 cm

Marguerite Bordet was a multifaceted French artist—painter, draughtswoman, and sculptor—born on September 25, 1909, in Paris and deceased in 2014. Trained at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and passionate about Renaissance painters, she traveled extensively in Italy, notably Florence, and also to Egypt, where she formed a close friendship with the renowned writer and academic Taha Hussein. She participated in numerous exhibitions in France and abroad, including in Cairo and the United States.